Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

North-South Enrolment in Tertiary Education: Discussion

Dr. Vivienne Patterson:

The Deputy will appreciate that the HEA Act has only been very recently enacted. We are working with our colleagues in the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to prioritise areas as set out in the new Act and particularly new areas that were not covered in the previous Act. We have not started that work yet, but we will be discussing with our colleagues in the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science what actions we can take and how we will be able to promote, co-operate and collaborate. As outlined in my opening statement, we have several funding initiatives, particularly with the technological universities and the landscape funding. We are hoping to increase that further. We have not had further discussions yet on how we will deal with what is set out in our new legislation. However, it is imminent as are a number of other areas in our-----

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